Manchester City Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2024/25

Deserved win .

Should have been a lot more

they are an annoyance now

nothing more

how times have changed

They have been poor for years and are going backwards if anything.

We supported this club all the way down

will they?

doubt it

The low was at York. Wrexham was the win that turned that season around, together with the Stoke match straight afterwards.

It might have been lower than anyone ever imagined but it ended with the the Gillingham match, which to me means even more than Agueroooo (mainly because I was there!).

Have to say, as much as I despise them, it was decent of the utd team to maintain social distancing yesterday, and keep a respectful distance from our lads.

That seemed a ridiculous stat, so I checked it out. You are correct! At least, in the PL (didn’t check the cups).

Livescore showing a blank screen for me 😐

They're amazing figures those lads are clocking up.

I think we win next week but that wont be the end of the season , couple of tricky games yet. It is City to lose now , but Pep does know how to win the league so I would fancy us to win overall.

Watching Palace tearing Arsenal a new one tonight, perhaps that point we got there a few weeks back wasn't the disaster it seemed at the time. The old saying about "if you can't win, don't lose" springs to mind.

Absolutely. The draw was probably fair enough, but we could have nicked an undeserved extra couple of points.

Atletico is a team that can beat anyone on their day, even if they are not quite at the top level. Remember how they knocked Liverpool out a couple of years ago, with some late Morata goals? Simeone knows how to get the best out of his team and, even worse, he knows how to drag the competition down to their level, when required.

We're definitely favourites but we need to be prepared to deal with the inevitable sh*thousery they will throw at us whenever they get the chance.

That'll do. When a team plays with a flat back 10, chances were always going to be limited. Hopefully, Atletico will come at us over there, leaving gaps for us to try to exploit.

I think a few years ago City might have lost that game, getting picked off in a counter. The fact that Atletico did not have one proper attempt at goal shows what we have learned since.

Same again in the return leg, please!

I found it noticeable how their players immediately started to rile Grealish from the second he stepped onto the pitch. They clearly had been instructed to specifically target him, trying to get a reaction out of him - which they very nearly did on one occasion. Learn that lesson for the second leg, lad!

I think either he said sonething to the ref or the ref got confused and though he was involved initially

That City team well able for the Win. Diaz only glaring miss , but other wise that's solid.

We should have won that game. We were clearly the better side. If we had a peak Salah, or Kane, or (dare I say it) Haaland, we would have won that game by half time. Indeed, the league would be pretty much in the bag, as we wouldn't have dropped points at Palace or Saints. As for the refereeing, it was scandalous. But that's Taylor for you, the well known "Altrincham" fan. Riiiight.

That was just mad at the end - even by Atletico standards, that was off the scale!

You know what, Atletico played so well in the second half (well, for the first 40 minutes of it), it really is a shame that they keep reverting to the dark arts time and time again, this would actually be a team of the highest quality if they tried to concentrate more on playing proper football. If they had been playing like this for the entire 180 minutes of the tie they would have had a better chance of going through. I cannot remember the last time City were played off the pitch for almost an entire half like that.

And then? I sure expected plenty of sh*thousery but that was something else.

Should be a good game today, I think we edge it .

In Pep we trust!

Does look like he prioritized over games over this and maybe he is right, Liverpool at full strength aswell .

Steffen has cost us the second FA Cup Semi in a row. It wasn't just his gift for Mane, he did not look great for the other two goals either, even if the first one was mainly down to bad defending in general, especially by Jesus.

Ah well. To be honest I expected us to lose that one after the brutal battle in Madrid. As long as we're back to full strength after today, it's still looking good on two fronts.

In a big enough crowd there will always be a few knobheads, it's just inevitable with those numbers. We always had some f*ckers singing the runway song and it was the same kind of scum yesterday. Disrupting a minute's silence for Hillsborough is just f*cking shameful, there's no excuses for that kind of sh*t. Those guys don't even like football, there in it for the tribalism.

That's not our fanbase, though. The guys and girls I used to go to the ground with have always been an open, welcoming bunch. That's the kind of people I associate with, and that's the kind of fans I associate with the club.